March 8th is International Women's Day!
I started celebrating early by attending a women's march last Saturday with one of my sisters. It was a sunny but very cold day, and we were happy to be part of efforts to raise awareness of the need for a more inclusive, gender equal world. Forecasts for gender parity are now at about a 170 year wait for Canadian women. 
Here are my first 30 blocks.
51 block patterns have already been posted for this project, so I'm a little bit behind.
This was the most challenging block so far - a 6" card trick pattern. This history lesson was about Henrietta Tuzo the first Canadian woman mountaineer. If she can climb mountains, surely I can sew a little quilt block without complaining!
Happy International Women's Day!
3 comments:
Happy International Woman's Day! I wish we didn't need such a day, somethings have changed a lot, some haven't.
Oh my do you and your sister look alike!!! Girl power!!!
Women have surely come a long way, but there is still a long uphill climb.
Your blocks look wonderful, but I have to say, that is certainly the hard way to make a "card tricks" block. Much simpler to make it with squares on point and setting triangles. Maybe this was an IQ test or something. : )
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